DCH-RP Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation
The DCH-RP Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation - Open Science Infrastructure for DCH in 2020 project was approved as part of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
The project, which is coordinated by ICCU, was launched in October 2012 and involves 13 partners from 8 European nations:
- Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information - Italy
- Riksarkiver - Sweden
- Belgian Federal Science Policy Office - Belgium
- Eesti Vabariigi Kultuuriministeerium - Estonia
- Collection Trust – United Kingdom
- Promotetr - Italy
- European Grid Initiative – The Netherlands
- National Institute of Nuclear Physics - Italy
- Poznańskie Centrum Superkomputerowo Sieciowe - Poland
- Nemzeti Információs Infrastruktúra Fejlesztési Intézet - Hungary
- EDItEUR – United Kingdom
- TERENA – The Netherlands
- Michael Culture - Belgium
The DCH-RP project activities aim to explore and define instruments and procedures for the digital preservation of cultural heritage, through the drafting of a shared roadmap and using research e-Infrastructure as the way for providing services in the Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) sector.
The project is divided into 5 Work Packages:
- WP1 Project management
- WP2 Project promotion and medium- and long-term dissemination of project results
- WP3 Planning of a roadmap for the preservation of digital cultural heritage
- WP4 Identification of case studies and best practices
- WP5 Testing of e-infrastructures applied to already existing platforms (Proofs of Concepts - PoCs)
As part of the WP5 activities, an initial Italian testing effort is examining the existing storage infrastructures such as Internet Culturale/MagTeca and Magazzini Digitali.
A National Working Group for the DCH-RP has been created; it includes ICCU (coordinator), the National Central Library of Florence, the Marciana National Library in Venice, the Vatican Library, the GARR Consortiumand Promoter, a private company.
A National Working Group for the DCH-RP has been created; it includes ICCU (coordinator), the National Central Library of Florence, the Marciana National Library in Venice, the Vatican Library, the GARR Consortiumand Promoter, a private company.
For further information on the DCH-RP project, the public documentation produced by the Work Packages, events and news, see: http://www.dch-rp.eu.